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Empires of Love : Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity by Carmen Nocentelli is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where colonial authorities actively encouraged the f

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Author

Carmen Nocentelli

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812207774

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Gender Studies, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25